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Under Arthur Krock and James Reston, the Times's outpost in the capital grew into an independent fiefdom, often brilliant but sometimes slack and slow compared with less lofty competitors. Complaints along these lines from New York headquarters were brushed aside almost as a matter of principle. In 1964, Reston acquired the pulpit of a full-time pundit, and was replaced as bureau chief by Tom Wicker, a top reporter, occasional columnist and indifferent administrator...
...clutter of armoires and grandfather clocks, quaint archaic radios and phonographs, fringed lampshades and a golden harp. A man in a policeman's uniform slowly enters the attic room and sniffs the dust of decades. He walks over to the harp and plucks at a string. It is slack, jangled and flat-an omen of the theatrical evening to come...
...qualities that have made Harris, at 70, an important American composer: logical structure, transparent textures and a broad melodic sense. Yet in the performance of the somewhat underrehearsed Philharmonic-under Harris' unpracticed baton-the mainspring that should have wound the work into a powerful coil of tension remained slack. Only the opening section of the 20-minute piece, with its urgent string passages set off against barking brass, was fully effective. In the second section, an elegiac fugue turned slowly on itself, then began to meander...
Captain Bobby Beller has taken up some of Royer's slack. Shootin better then he has since freshman year. Beller has started hitting his line drive jumper with greater frequency. Jeff Grate's in sertion in the starting lineup gives the Crimson a little more strength defensively, but he isn't scoring enough...
...officers themselves-mostly reservists eager to return to civilian life-were "living in extreme messiness," and they barely deigned to say "Aye, aye, sir." Though the Vance had won an E for engineering excellence and performed commendably on lonely, months-long patrols in the northern Pacific, she seemed a slack ship to Arnheiter's eye, and only "a taut ship is a happy ship." Arnheiter was up-taut himself: a Naval Academy "ring-knocker" he was passed over once for lieutenant and at 40 was one of the oldest Annapolis men of his rank with command responsibility. Aware that...